The Codex Judas Papers by April D. DeConick

Pearson - Laughing at Judas : conflicting interpretations of a new Gnostic gospel / Fernando Bermejo Rubio - 'You will become the thirteenth' : the identity of Judas in the Gospel of Judas / Kevin Sullivan - Judas' anger and the perfect human / Ismo Dunderberg - Rabbi Yehuda versus Judas Iscariot : the Gospel of Judas and apocryphal Passion stories / Pierluigi Piovanelli - Apostles as archons : the fight for authority and the emergence of Gnosticism in the Tchacos Codex and other early Christian literature / April D.

Turner - Judas Iscariot in the Gospel of Judas / Birger A. King - Irenaeus on the Gospel of Judas : an analysis of the evidence in context / Johannes van Oort - When the Sethians were young : the Gospel of Judas in the second century / Marvin Meyer - The Gospel of Judas : its protagonist, its composition, and its community / Gesine Schenke Robinson - The Sethian myth in the Gospel of Judas : soteriology or demonology? / John D. DeConick - The Tchacos codex : another document of the gnostics? / Alastair Logan - Marytrdom and its discontents in the Tchacos codex / Karen L. CONTENTS: The Codex Judas Congress and its proceedings / April D. Since this codex is a newly-conserved ancient book of Christian manuscripts which had yet to be discussed collaboratively by a body of scholars, this book is nothing less than a landmark in Gnostic studies. This book contains the proceedings from the Codex Judas Congress held to discuss the newly-restored Tchacos Codex. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Hardcover.

Robinson, Gesine Schenke Robinson, Kevin Sullivan, Franklin Trammel, Johannes van Oort, Bas van Os, Louis Painchaud, Tage Petersen, John D. DeConick, Ismo Dunderberg, Niclas Förster, Wolf-Peter Funk, Simon Gathercole, Matteo Grosso, Lance Jenott, Karen King, Nicola Denzey Lewis, Alastair Logan, Antti Marjanen, Marvin Meyer, Elaine Pagels, Birger A. Although the contributions show a variety of interpretations of the Tchacos texts, several points of agreement emerge, including the assessment that the Codex belonged to early Christians in conflict with other Christians who belonged to the apostolic or conventional church.Ĭontributors include: Grant Adamson, Johanna Brankaer, Fernando Bermejo Rubio, Serge Cazelais, April D. Scholars address issues of identity and community, portraits of Judas, astrological lore, salvation and praxis, text and intertext, and manuscript matters. Given that the Tchacos Codex is a newly-conserved ancient book of Christian manuscripts which had yet to be discussed collaboratively by a body of scholars, the research conducted and published within this book by the members of the Codex Judas Congress is nothing less than a landmark in Gnostic studies. This book contains the proceedings from the Codex Judas Congress, the first international conference held to discuss the newly-restored Tchacos Codex.

The Codex Judas Papers by April D. DeConick